Classic Guide Highlight: Protection Paladin Tanking Guide by Askalon

In today's guide spotlight we will cover the Protection Paladin Tanking Guide by Askalon\/Whataburger. Protection Paladins aren't often used in Classic WoW as tanks, due to the lack of a taunt ability, which was only added to the Paladin class in The Burning Crusade expansion. However, there are many raid encounters and scenarios that Protection Paladins can serve as tanks.\r\rClick here for the Protection Paladin Tanking Guide\r\rLooking for other Паладин guides? We have Retribution Paladin DPS and Holy Paladin Healing Guides as well. \r\rMake sure you check out our other Classic Class Guides\r\rThe Tanking guide goes over everything you need to know if you're looking into playing a Protection Paladin, what abilities you should use and have available, which talents to pick, what consumables to use, rotation and more. The guide also does an in-depth analysis of your gearing strategy, giving many different options for each slot, plus dissecting items and pinning down their main uses.\r\rThe guide also has a special section talking about the viability of the spec on many different raid encounters for Classic. Due to its lack of taunt and reduced mitigation abilities compared to other tanks, Paladins can't main tank many encounters. Those limitations are highlighted in the guide, helping you know your limits right away.\r\r\rOver the past few weeks, we've shared our other advanced class guides for Classic. Check them out below if you missed any of them.\r\rAdvanced Rogue Class Guide by Rokman\rAdvanced DPS Warrior Class Guide by Krug\rAdvanced Feral Druid Tank Class Guide by Krug\rAdvanced Hunter Class Guide by Sherro\rAdvanced Mage Class Guide by Kelman\rAdvanced Shaman Healing Guide by Woah\rAdvanced Priest Healing Guide by Maugus\rAdvanced Druid Healing Guide by SixPacKyx\rAdvanced Shadow Priest DPS Guide by Rokman\rAdvanced Paladin Healing Guide by Impakt\rAdvanced Warrior Tank Guide by Terryn\rAdvanced Warlock DPS Guide by Imalive\rAdvanced Retribution Paladin DPS Guide by Impakt\rAdvanced Feral Druid DPS Guide by Krug\rAdvanced Elemental Shaman DPS Class Guide by Woah\r\r\r\rDid you enjoy this news article? Receive instant notifications when the latest news is published through the Wowhead Discord Webhook and join the community with Wowhead's Discord Server, Twitter, and Facebook.

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Комментарий от azeir

i feel sorry for anyone who follows this guide and try to join a hardcore guild as a PD MT x)

Комментарий от AlakeiThancan

on 2019-08-18T16:50:43-05:00

Wait, they had a tank spec back in the day? That's weird, I never saw one actually tank. Hmmm ....

Комментарий от Flipityflu

on 2019-08-18T17:11:40-05:00

i feel sorry for anyone who follows this guide and try to join a hardcore guild as a PD MT x)\r\rMaybe you should actually read the guide before making a comment. It quite clearly states that Raid Tanking is quite inferior.

Комментарий от Walkerfin

on 2019-08-18T17:22:04-05:00

Wait, they had a tank spec back in the day? That's weird, I never saw one actually tank. Hmmm ....\r\rSame paladins in vanilla can only heal not sure if blizzard fix it class abilities now

Комментарий от Vulgaria

on 2019-08-18T17:54:24-05:00

Wait, they had a tank spec back in the day? That's weird, I never saw one actually tank. Hmmm ....\r\rSame paladins in vanilla can only heal not sure if blizzard fix it class abilities now\r\rPaladins were not uptimal for end content but perfectly viable with a group of friends and so forth, their main problem was running out of Mana constantly so they had to drink and each between pulls, and no they will not "fix" the classes cus that would be changes the Classic community doesn't want, I personally would like it to be balanced properly.

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Комментарий от lovelywaz

on 2019-08-19T01:59:37-05:00

Why ain't wowhead's Classic news going on wowhead classic only :O? I just wonder xD\r\rThere's a filter option right next to "News" at the top, you can untick Classic or any other type of news for that matter, if you don't want to see those on home page.

Комментарий от schnizol

on 2019-08-19T03:07:17-05:00

Come on guys. Shaman tanking guide! Please :C

Комментарий от Cyberium

on 2019-08-19T10:47:42-05:00

Back in Beta, paladin actually had efficient tanking and dps abilities, but some players from EQ, Furor and Tigole, were warrior players and hated paladin so much that when they became WoW designers they nerfed paladin to the ground before the game came out. They\u2019re ones who rallied Warriors to forced their EQ server to shut down as a protest on hybrid classes.\r\rhttps:\/\/www.mmo-champion.com\/threads\/1709927-the-man-who-nerfed-paladins-before-the-game-even-came-out

Комментарий от Icov94

on 2019-08-19T11:24:09-05:00

Back in Beta, paladin actually had efficient tanking and dps abilities, but some players from EQ, Furor and Tigole, were warrior players and hated paladin so much that when they became WoW designers they nerfed paladin to the ground before the game came out. They\u2019re ones who rallied Warriors to forced their EQ server to shut down as a protest on hybrid classes.\r\rhttps:\/\/www.mmo-champion.com\/threads\/1709927-the-man-who-nerfed-paladins-before-the-game-even-came-out\r\rAs fun as that was to read, nowhere in there are any of the claims sources. So while plausible, I'd take all of that with a huge huge huuuuuge grain of salt.

Комментарий от Pelontir

on 2019-08-19T14:03:00-05:00

Thanks alot for the guide! My main will be a prot pally and yeah I know my limits, but I just love the class!\rAnd yeah I will level slow and won't do progression raiding so I will be more than fine ;-)

Комментарий от azeir

on 2019-08-19T16:28:52-05:00

i feel sorry for anyone who follows this guide and try to join a hardcore guild as a PD MT x)\r\rMaybe you should actually read the guide before making a comment. It quite clearly states that Raid Tanking is quite inferior.\r\ri had read it, and id still feel sorry for anyone dumb enough to ignore that bit of info

Комментарий от SirKratus

on 2019-08-19T19:02:19-05:00

This is why I don't get the hype for Classic. There are aspects of the game that used to be done better than they are now, and Blizzard's modern crew could learn a thing or two from Classic's design, but in order to have a "pure" Classic WoW experience, a bunch of different classes and specs have to be literally broken. Prot and Ret paladin has been my main for 15 years. Both specs are useless in a lot of Classic WoW content. Why would I want to play that version of my character again?

Комментарий от TheDarkSpectrum

on 2019-08-19T19:42:16-05:00

but some players from EQ, Furor and Tigole, were warrior players and hated paladin so much that when they became WoW designers they nerfed paladin to the ground before the game came out.

They did a bad job then because, prior to the paladin revamp, they were pretty good single target tanks.

Комментарий от Cyberium

on 2019-08-19T20:35:13-05:00

but some players from EQ, Furor and Tigole, were warrior players and hated paladin so much that when they became WoW designers they nerfed paladin to the ground before the game came out.\r\rThey did a bad job then because, prior to the paladin revamp, they were pretty good single target tanks.\r\rEnded up Four Horsemen requires 8 warriors. Yeah, I\u2019m sure they\u2019re excited about it.